While millions rejoiced across a devastated Europe as the guns finally fell silent on VE Day, British paratrooper Peter Belcher was witnessing the worst of Nazi Germany at a concentration camp. He was ...

After about six years of living in mortal fear, the people hardly dared to believe it. It was May 1945 and for weeks they had ...

Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks the 80th ...

Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, became Germany’s next chancellor after a surprising setback in parliament ...

Supporters of Mr. Merz, a former corporate lawyer, say he is well-prepared and thoughtful, but critics accuse him of failing ...

The epicenter of Adolf Hitler’s power was the ultimate prize as the Allies closed in from east and west on disintegrating ...

Others liken it to a maze of coffins, disorientating and eerily quiet despite being in the middle of Berlin.The German ...

Chris Spencer Once honored as democracy’s last line of defense, the mainstream press now operates as palace scribes to ...

When JD Vance was running for vice president, he walked across an airport tarmac in Wisconsin one August day when his ...

Happy City Index ranks cities based on the happiness of their citizens. These are the 20 cities that ranked highest.

There’s a particularly ungainly pub on the River Thames called Doggett’s. To most people it’s an eyesore (although it’s quite nice inside); but if I’m crossing Blackfriars Bridge and it ...

In the Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye, where sheep outnumber people and books spill onto the streets, a quiet revolution began. Antiquarian and academic Richard Booth inadvertently launched a global ...